Translate flower | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of flower
noun
1the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly colored corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals). a brightly colored and conspicuous example of the flower of a plant together with its stalk, typically used with others as a decoration or gift:I stopped to buy Bridget some flowers the state or period in which a plant’s flowers have developed and opened:the roses were just coming into flower
2 (
the flower of)
the finest individuals out of a number of people or things:the flower of college track athletes the period of optimum development:a young policeman in the flower of his life gunned down
verb
[no object] 1(of a plant) produce flowers; bloom:these daisies can flower as late as October [with object] induce (a plant) to produce flowers.
2be in or reach an optimum stage of development; develop fully and richly:it is there that the theory of deconstruction has flowered most extravagantly (as noun flowering)the flowering of Viennese intellectual life
